(Alice Domurat Dreger, Doubtful Sex: Cases and Concepts of Hermaphroditism in France and Britain, 1868-1915 [Ph.D. Dissertation in History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University, 1995].)

The work that really started it all. This dissertation formed the basis for Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex (Harvard University Press, 1998) and won the Esther L. Kinsley Ph.D. Dissertation Award.

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Doubtful Sex: Cases and Concepts of Hermaphroditism in France and Britain, 1968-1915